Filming for Game of Thrones season six continues, and we continue to get a trickle of leaks in the form of set photos and casting news. The latest actor casting to make waves is Melanie Liburd, who has previously appeared in stuff like The Grinder, Dracula, and CSI. The part she’s set to play has raised a few eyebrows.
Deadline reports that the actress will play a new Red Priestess — the further we get into the story, the more of these we seem to meet. There’s Melisandre, played by Carice van Houten. We briefly met a new Asian priestess played by Rila Fukushima in Volantis. And now Liburd will play Kinvara, a priestess who will work with Tyrion and Varys to help keep Meereen under control while Dany is off Dothraki’ing.
We know this because of leaked audition tapes that were transcribed by Watchers on the Wall. Here’s a taste of one of her scenes:
Kinvara: “You want my priests to convince the Meereenese that the city’s conqueror is the people’s savior.”
Tyrion/Varys: “We prefer liberator to conqueror.”
Kinvara: “You don’t have to persuade me of anything. I came to help. Daenerys Stormborn is the One Who Was Promised. From the fire, she was reborn … to remake the world.”
Tyrion: “Yes.”
Kinvara: “She freed the slaves from their chains and crucified the Masters for their sins.”
Tyrion/Varys: “She did indeed.”
Kinvara: “Her dragons are fire made flesh. A gift from the Lord of Light. But you’ve heard all of this before, haven’t you? On the Long Bridge of Volantis? The dragons purify nonbelievers by the thousands, burning their sins and flesh away.”
Tyrion/Varys: “Ideally, we’d avoid purifying many non-believers. The Mother of the Dragon has followers from many different faiths.”
As for how set in stone the script is, past script leaks carried by Watchers on the Wall ended up being word-for-word accurate. What a time to be alive, where we can ruin a show for ourselves so completely before it’s even close to coming out. By the time next March rolls around, we’ll probably know everything there is to know. The internet truly is dark and full of spoilers.
(Via Deadline)
